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by disintegore 2333 days ago
"Tiers" imply some sort of vertical partitioning. These "non-micro" services may coexist on a layer, transcend boundaries, overlap, etc.

In any case, there's already such a term. It's called SOA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Service-oriented_architecture. Microservices arguably evolved out of this.